Chozo Princess

Donald cast Curaga on Goofy just in time for them all to get out of there. Sora flew over the battlescene, gliding and blasting Prime with his Blizzaga magic. Unfortunately that wasn't enough. The spells merely bounced off.

"I thought you killed these things with ice!" Sora called to Samus. Samus was in no situation to respond. She had gone into her morph ball and ducked into a crevice to avoid assault. When she reappeared, she yelled back to him.

"You're the heartless expert, what do you think we should do?" she said, firing her homing electric based attacks at it. The charges merely danced across its body. Donald, Goofy, and Luigi were protecting Kairi, who seemed to be Primes number one target for some reason. Sora and Ward would try to get its attention, but it would always divert back to Kairi.

"What's it got against her anyway?" Donald asked. Samus jumped onto the ledge to aid them.

"My only guess is that it is confusing her with me. When I went into morph ball, it couldn't see me anymore. Therefore, it sought out the next orange clad heroine, and assumed it was me. Sora, who was gliding nearby, nearly fell out of the sky when he heard this.

"Y…You're a girl?" he asked, incredulously. She nodded. Sora's brain began to go into overdrive. Everything started clicking with her answer.

Ever since they arrived, it was bugging Sora as to why the heartless would attack such a seemingly useless world. It was devoid of any life that was beneficial. But now he understood. Samus was a Princess of Light. He wanted to tell Donald, but Donald had his hands full at the moment. "Better wait for the battle to finish," he thought to himself.

No matter what they did, however, they could not make a dent in that armor that it had. Luigi and Ward tried the same freezing technique that they did to the armor heartless, but it didn't work. Donald and Sora used their Limit break, but not even their combined efforts did anything to stall the giant beast. Samus and Ward teamed up, integrating Wards Keyblade (Practically his entire arm) into her cannon, and shooting out massive amounts of pure light energy. This is the closest thing that anyone came to denting the armor.

"We gotta think sharper!" Ward said. Suddenly, there was a flash right next to him, and Goofy was off.

"Goofy, what the heck?" Donald screamed. With a look of immense concentration, Goofy threw his hands out and screamed. His ears flew up, sparks shone from his body, and his whole body took on an odd coloration. "GOOFY NO!" Donald screamed.

"What's he doing?" Sora called.

"He's going into Trance!" Donald answered. Goofy looked up, and gave Prime a look that Sora had never seen on Goofy's face. It was one of pure hatred and anger. It scared Sora to look at Goofy like that, because Sora had never seen Goofy truly angry before. Even in the harshest times, Goofy never grew cold with anyone. Goofy jumped in the air, and took off. He held his shield out at arms length, and began spinning, just like he did with his tornado attack. Only this time, he kept spinning instead of fading off. Faster and faster until he was only a blur. Then like lightning, he shot off toward prime. The oversized Metroid shot blasts at Goofy that merely bounced off the spinning warrior. They collided, only this time, the armor was shattered. Like a tall buzzsaw, Goofy tore through the armor, in one end and out the other until finally, it retreated into a hole. Goofy collapsed on the ground, clearly spent. He returned to normal.

Sora ran up next to him and cast Curaga. "Goofy…aside from looking completely scary, that was INCREDIBLE," Goofy turned and smiled weakly.

"It sure does a number on a guy though, ahyuck!" he answered, no longer looking upset at all.

"GOOFY," Donald screamed. "You know you're not ready to go into trance yet! His Majesty has told you A HUNDRED TIMES!"
"Well Donald, just like when I abandoned Riku for Sora, I was ready to do what it took to help my friends," Goofy answered.

"I know, I know…" Donald said.

"Goofy," Kairi asked, "Why didn't you do that earlier, if you knew you could do it?"

"Well, I only got the idea when Ward said we need to think sharper," Goofy replied as the mages were healing him, "My shield edge is sharper than anything here, so I knew I just needed to give it a little extra get up and go!" Before anyone could laugh, there was a roar from down below.

"It's not finished," Samus said. They stared down the hole into blackness.

"Donald, you Goofy and Luigi stay here and look after Kairi," Ward said. Kairi started to protest, but stopped when Sora put up his hand.

"You've proven you can fight," Samus said, "But trust me, if my scanners are reading this right, we aren't going to want to get crowded down there."

"Fine," Kairi said, "Just take care of Sora, would you? He always gets himself into trouble, some how."

"Men usually do," Samus said, a hint of laughter in her voice. The three of them jumped into the blackness. After a while, a small light shone, which grew and grew until they could see what it was.

Ward Scanned it. "Metroid Prime-Armorless. The fact that you got it to this stage is incredible, but unfortunately this is where it ends. Because, to kill this beast, one must channel the extreme toxin phazon, blue in color, and highly poisonous to any living creature around it. If you've managed to get it into a room filled with phazon, then kudos to you, take care of it."

"I can't wait to get rid of this thing," Ward thought. He looked around. Samus was staring at the giant creature. It was slightly taller than Samus, but much shorter than the armored version of itself. This version resembled a metroid much more than the other one. It was blue in color, but clear, like a metroid. It seemed to have veins that ran the course of its body. Instead of claws, it had tentacles. And the red orbs on the inside highly resembled a face.

Sora looked around at the room they were in. This was not a place for children, that was for sure. The toxic blue waste was in three corners, just oozing. Samus stared at the new creature.

"There is no trace of heartless in this creature," She said. "This is all metroid, highly evolved." Sora nodded, and ran forward. The creature zapped him with a blue light, throwing him backwards into the wall, dangerously close to the toxic phazon. He got up and started blasting blizzards at it. Ward was throwing his keyblade like a boomerang, knocking it backwards, but doing no visible damage to it. Samus was blasting it with super missiles.

"My scanner says we should channel the phazon through our weaponry to beat it!" Ward called out. Samus looked at the blue substance, then jumped into it.

"SAMUS!" Both Ward and Sora called out.

"I'm fine," She shouted, "Distract it for a while!" Sora nodded and started and looked at the creature.

"I wonder if I can go into trance…" He thought. Focusing all of his energy, he flexed every muscle in his body, but nothing happened. "Damn," he thought, "I'm gonna have to get Goofy to teach me how to do that." He side stepped as one of the tentacles came close from gutting him. Ward ducked, rolled and was directly under the creature, and fired a blast of lighting right into the center. It roared, and smacked Ward hard with a blue energy beam. Ward landed next to Samus, who was charging her beam. It was sucking in the phazon, and was coursing through her suit, giving her an odd blue color.

"Get it into range," She said to him.

"Sure," Ward said, exasperated, "No problem." He turned just in time to see the creature knock Sora down, and started sucking the life out of him.

"SORA!" came a voice from above, and Goofy, Donald, Luigi, and Kairi were there. Goofy threw his shield and smacked the creature in the head, it turned, and saw him. Roaring, it charged Goofy. It was apparently still angry at its quick defeat at his hand.

"Bring it closer to Samus!" Ward yelled. Goofy threw his shield on the ground and jumped on it like a skateboard and took off at a decent speed towards Samus. Prime chased him, oblivious to the plan that they had. They were mere feet from Samus when Goofy reached down and grabbed his shield and jumped out of the way. Samus fired. The blast was incredible. Hitting Prime square in the face, the monster screamed and thrashed. The more the beam fired, the brighter it got, until finally it was too bright to see anything. The monster gave one final scream before, finally, the light faded, leaving nothing but a pool of phazon in its wake. The group looked at it, and Sora (who Donald and Luigi had recovered) turned to Samus.

"Way to go…huh?" Sora said. But Samus was gone.

"Where'd she go?" Ward asked. He looked up, and Ridley had returned, carrying an unconscious Samus in his talons.

"NO," Sora yelled.

"I'm afraid so!" Ridley sneered. He threw a ball which opened a teleporter, and dropped Samus in. "I hate to run, but I have a Universe to conquer!" He started his descent, but Ward threw his keyblade, and hit the ball, destroying the portal. Ridley, completely unprepared for this, plummeted to the ground, colliding head first, breaking his neck. As he lay twitching on the ground, he looked over (what little he could with a broken neck) and said, "I still win," he pulled out a remote control and hit the only button on it. A siren started, and a metallic voice said "Self destruct in T-minus 2 minutes." Ridley then died.

"We have to get back to the ship!" Luigi said. Sora looked over, and saw a healing point.

"C'mon, we can use this to get back to the Gummi!" He said. They teleported to the gummi.

"Hey Rook!" Popple said to Luigi, "Got the ship repaired and more! We can survive the atmosphere."

"Save it for later!" Ward said, running past the confused technician. "We've got an exploding planet to get off of!"

"WHOA!" Popple yelled, "Everyone in, NOW!" After the gummi was loaded, they took off. Right as they escaped the atmosphere, explosions dotted the planet, and soon, it was entirely engulfed in flame. The group stared at it.

"I wonder what happened to Samus," Donald said.

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Cackletta smiled as she stared at the woman, who was put into a magical sleep. Stripped of her power suit, she wasn't a threat to anyone.

"One Princess down," Cackletta thought, "Six to go."

OtO: Find out what Cloud an Auron, as well as some new faces, have been up to in Chapter 12.